Hello gents.....Happy New Year's Eve.
Yesterday I worked. Both of my female counterparts have managed to finagle their work schedules so as to get two ( of the 4) Saturday's off each month where I only get one. That means that there are occasions where I end up working by myself on a Saturday......And on this Saturday,.....the last Saturday of the month,....the last Saturday of the year,....it was ape sht busy. Typically,..on a normally busy day, it's not uncommon to assist with 6-8 deliveries where I'll go over all of the functions of their new car, pair their new phone,...and make sure they're comfortable and feel secure in the new car. This process is typically about 30 minutes....
Yesterday, I did 13 of those...
in essence, I talked non stop for 6.5 hours. And didn't leave till 7:45 when we closed at 6:00....
I was in no mood to do anything but have dinner, sit in my chair,...have a drink,..and go to bed.
But the wife had plans for me,....I had a dinner party to go to at her friends house.....And the dinner consisted of blechky food.....Mushroom risotto,....with big slimy mushrooms, stuffed mushrooms, with even bigger slimy mushrooms,..and home made crab cakes...none of which would have been that bad, despite not being what I'd ever order on a menu,..except that it was hot at 6:30.....and I didn't get there till 8:15...
Add "Luke warm" to the slimy mushroom part...
When I got home, and saw all of this input from you all,......it was just too much to comprehend....my brain shut down....I went into hibernate mode.
But today is a new day......
My idea was not to use a common plenum.
*I doubt that I'd see any benefit over the existing manifold with this design,..and the visual isn't different enough to justify going through all of this.
This is too rough, and primitive looking, even if it works good. No, says the finger.
The factory version of the intake makes getting to the top bolts, and the injectors a giant pain in the ass.
And I'm not trading away one pain in the ass for another one.
If I could get a plenum under the runners I'd consider a look like this:
But that forces a rethink on the existing water pump system that lives under the intake manifold,...so,...more work than what it's worth.
Ironically,...this is the concept seed that is growing in the grey matter forest inside my head...
So,....more topic for discussion.....
If I split a plenum and feed two banks of three cylinders ( much in the same way I'm feeding the twin scroll turbo)
Do we think there'll be any negative/positive benefit to feeding cyls 123 from one common plenum, and 456 from another? Chrysler did it almost 60 years ago...
( I'll bet this was a real btch to get started)
They linked the two plenums together,...you can barely see it in the above pic...
But much more clearly here...
So,...this is how it works with me,....I've got all of these "ingredients" now,...I've just gotta mix them all together, and throw it in the oven to bake...
Then when it's done,....ill do a taste test....and probably throw it in the trash.
I'll change the mix, and re-bake.........wait till it cools,...take another bite...
Maybe it'll see the trash can,....maybe it won't.
